BBC Radio Norfolk's Matt Gudgin said: 'The Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, Kelly Holmes in the 800 and 1500 metres for Great Britain.

'In the run up to the Olympic Games she was suffering with depression, but she stayed up there and came up from behind all the rest.

'She won two golds and made Dame after that, she ran excellently and won in such dramatic style, what an inspiration.

'What happens in the Olympic stadium really does resonate.'